I along with lots of others thought Jack Monroe was a genuine force for good. Then it started to become clear that poverty cosplaying and campaigning is very lucrative and allows you to brag in the Guardian about spaffing other peoples money on booze and furniture.
Jack Monroe was taking money from people on less than £70 per week while taking in over £2K per month through patreon plus charging £10k for public appearances. You know what you’re getting with a Tory, Jack conned the vulnerable into thinking she was one of them.
Two fakes. A “Conservative” fake, Lee Anderson, who wants to say that State benefits are OK or even too generous, and a “poverty expert” fake, “Jack Monroe”, who is making money (as the first fake truly remarked about her on GB News last year) “off the backs of the poor“, and cheating people in several ways.
Ann, it is indeed a pretty disgraceful thing to say, the man is odious. However, let's not forget that JM herself says you can make a meal on much less than the 30p he claimed. I won't repeat the other responses you've had, but JM has made £££ saying the poor can't budget or cook
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 9, 2023
Please don't take it personally. She enrages a lot of people, me included. Do bear in mind that her alternate index still doesn't exist, despite her saying it was 'the work of a weekend'. I'm sorry you got caught up in all this though.
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 9, 2023
Anger is never an either/or situation though, is it? I can be angry about the war in Ukraine, Climate Change, eco-issues AND Jack Monroe taking money from people for Patreon / legal fees but not bothering to provide promised goods or going ahead with legal action, surely?
— Nikki Pilkington – non-wanky SEO (@NikkiPilkington) February 10, 2023
“Jack Monroe”, the grift that keeps on giving…oh, no, wait… I meant to say “taking”…
…and, yes, 498 mugs are still each sending her between £3.50 and £44 (!) via Patreon every single month. One of the most successful grey-area “near”-frauds I have ever seen.
The by-election was caused by the standing-down of incumbent MP Rosie Cooper, a poor MP in my opinion, who at one point wanted England and Wales to institute no-jury trials (“Diplock courts”, as used in Northern Ireland) for defendants accused of politically-motivated crimes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Cooper. She was also, at one time, vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
The reason why Rosie Cooper stood down (at the age of 72) was because she will now be getting two or three times her MP salary, as head of an NHS Trust.
As to the inevitable Labour victory in the by-election, no surprise. Labour’s vote share of 62.3% compares to 52.1% in 2019.
The other candidates did not shine. Reform UK got 4.4%, but there again, its predecessor Farage-vehicle, Brexit Party, scored 4.3% in 2019. The Greens and Libdems ended up more or less where they had been at the 2019 election; both lost their deposits, as did Reform UK (and the Monster Raving Loony).
What can we take away from this? That Labour remains fairly solid in at least some historically-Labour areas, that the Conservative Party is going nowhere in such areas, and that the two main System parties face no threat from Reform UK, the LibDems, or the Greens.
The most interesting fact about the by-election is that the turnout was only 31.4%; well over two-thirds of the eligible electorate could not be bothered to vote. If a party were to exist that could energize the remaining 68.6%, it might be a different story.
Incidentally, the new MP is one Ashley Dalton, about 52-53 years old, a widow who “identifies as LBGT [and as] a gay woman” [Wikipedia: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Dalton].
Turbulence in global #food markets is primarily related to the short-sighted policies of Western countries, who pumped up national financial systems with cheap money in order to mitigate the consequences of #COVID19 pandemic, thereby unbalancing global markets, incl food markets. pic.twitter.com/kBkOAtCX6m
💬#Zakharova: On February 13-15, 1945, the UK & US forces waged the infamous barbaric air bombings of Dresden.
◾️ It was the most devastating bombing attack in Europe during #WWII. Different estimates of the death toll vary from 25,000-50,000 to over 135,000 people#NeverForgetpic.twitter.com/CXQvTeSspH
.@thecoastguy’s reputation will shine brightly and brilliantly for years to come, long after the reputation of The Guardian has been self-soiled into insignificance.
Russia demands those responsible for Nord Stream blasts must be named and punished after investigative reporter claims Joe Biden ordered US navy to destroy the gas pipehttps://t.co/JxqXNncRkD
Just a few examples of how life in the multikulti UK is sliding towards chaos and evil. We all know in our hearts that there will be, in the end, only one way to deal with all of this, but even on a blog such as this, it cannot be expressed, by reason of the repression on free speech that now exists.
[Germany 1945: “We are fighting for the future of our children!“]
An amusing parody of the tweets of “Bootstrap Cook”, aka “Jack Monroe”.
As to the real Jack Monroe, she is waiting for the (as she calls it) “trash fire” of criticism about her alleged “grifting”, untruthful back-story and/or “frauds” to abate, so that she can carry on making a good living by putting up a facade of “helping the poor” while taking in money from donors, “patrons”, the msm, and her book royalties. The whole lot may add up to £100,000 a year, or more. In the absence of transparency, it is hard to know.
I am just now looking at the Patreon page of the “Bootstrap Cook”: 664 patrons paying out between £3.50 and £10 a month for what is alleged to be…nothing, or nothing much.
She only had 663 mugs paying out yesterday, so she has actually gained one new mug-patron since yesterday, despite the tide of outrage. There’s one born every minute, or at least every day, it seems…
The way people, including people surviving on small State benefits, are subsidizing the lifestyle of “Jack Monroe”, reminds me of the way some deluded elderly people used to post £5 notes to the late Queen whenever she let slip some nonsensical statement in the Press about how she was “feeling the pinch” and so “having to economize”. Apparently, the donors would all be sent a nice letter as if from the Queen, thanking them for their gift. Shameless. Admittedly, I suppose that the late Queen could hardly refuse the money. Awkward.
Serial war criminal John #Bolton effectively admits that the U.S. is using the 'Syrian Revolution' copybook in #Iran. He says weapons are seized from Basij militia and imported from US occupied Iraqi Kurdistan. Bolton has ties with the #MEK terrorist group, based in Albania. pic.twitter.com/ZI0xdY2naW
SNP insists the Conservatives can't be trusted to protect Scots families after DWP minister was blasted for suggesting maternity rights should be slashed. https://t.co/O7PamlxyYX
The “oblique warfare” now being waged by Russia against Kiev-regime electricity generation will have a huge effect if it continues. The civilian population will be cold and unable to cook food, and manufacturing of equipment and arms will be halted.
Gas supplies from Russia were cut off when the war started. The next step may be to stop all electricity generation, eg by hitting the Dnieper dam and other hydro stations, and at the same time hitting road transport by hitting fuel-storage places.
The Kiev-regime army and air force will be unable to move far or fast once their fuel runs out.
I hear that the Kiev regime is also rapidly running out of ground-to-air missiles. If the supply runs out completely, there will probably be a Russian air offensive to cripple vital infrastructure further, as happened when the Americans attacked Iraq.
It is clear that the Russian Army is having problems with recruitment, training, and discipline, but the recruitment is going ahead, and presumably the other problems are being addressed.
It may be that, next summer, there will be a massive frontal assault on Kiev, with the aim of capturing the city, and driving the Jew Zelensky and his cohorts out of the city, to Lvov or overseas.
More tweets
Current verdict of a long standing conservative commentator and research fellow of the Centre for Policy Studies. https://t.co/dCegaY3KDf
"The pantomime villain of British politics has exited stage right – leaving for a third and presumably final time, with the crowd booing."@SamCoatesSky on why Gavin Williamson's departure is about more than just the messages👇https://t.co/A8t4NezpaJ
As regular readers will have noticed, my assessment of “Jack Monroe” published on 30 September 2022 noted that the fans of the “Bootstrap Cook” tend to be persons not at all badly-off, who (literally) support her for general socio-political reasons; in a word, middle-class virtue-signallers just like the tweeter there, one Freya Vass, an American now lecturing in dance at the University of Kent: see https://www.kent.ac.uk/arts/people/2144/vass-rhee-freya; https://uk.linkedin.com/in/freya-vass-62280029.
The “Bootstrap Cook” has hit a rich vein of gullibility from which to profit— people who imagine that they are doing their bit to improve the world by sending money to “Jack Monroe” to support the lifestyle of the same.
Here is another recent tweet reply by the same person, Freya Vass (who sounds pretty loony):
Thanks again for reminding me that the real @BootstrapCook has a Patreon account! Every time you mention it Ima go drop £5 in for her. You’re ace! I mean, an ass.
If accurate, it proves that my instinct about Liz Truss, i.e. that she was being banged by woolly-head Kwarteng, was correct (indeed, if the document is to be believed, by young researchers as well).
Even I, thought cynical as can be about the MPs in the corrupt Westminster monkeyhouse, am surprised at the actual extent of the degeneracy.
Looks as if Indian supposed “clever boy” and money-juggler, Sunak, is finding the job not very easy.
⚡️ UK to provide Armed Forces with 25,000 sets of extreme cold weather clothing by mid-December.
"We must continue backing the Ukrainian people in their resistance to (Russian President Vladimir) Putin's brutality," British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Nov. 9.
The UK Government cannot defend its own borders yet is determined to help defend those of a shambolic, corrupt, failed “state” that did not even exist before 1991.
I once knew a nurse who was doing a 12 hour shift (as we do) and she had forgotten her lunch, so she ate some leftovers off the patients food trolley.
She was sacked.
Gavin Williamson issues death threats to a colleague and remains an MP.
Strange. When I had to go to hospital unexpectedly from Cambridge County Court (about 15 years ago) with a minor problem, I was waiting between therapies, alone in a large area at around midday, when a porter came through with various lunch dishes for in-patients, and offered me anything I might want. I selected a fish and chips. No charge. Thanks very much. Still appreciated today.
Apropos of nothing much, when I first visited Qatar, in 2001 (before its explosive development), I returned to my pleasant hotel from a meeting, and felt hungry. Outside a room on my corridor, someone had left a room service plate outside a door, with an uneaten and unpeeled banana and orange on the plate. I took both fruits and enjoyed them in my room, but then thought “what if that was caught on camera? Might I get my hand chopped off for the sake of that bloody banana?” In fact, no (Islamic law is not quite as strict as that anyway, even in Saudi Arabia), but it gave me a few anxious minutes.
I’m A Celebrity
Watched the minute or so at the start of the show, to see whether Little Matt Hancock was featured. All the existing “celebrities” were shown in cameo. I only recognized two of them (Boy George and Mike Tindall). Maybe it’s an age thing, or a culture thing…
Antarctica is a barren wasteland with little vegetation and few animals. Can you even imagine dinosaurs moving around in Antarctica amid massive forest fires?
But it appears that this was a thing on the frozen continent 75 million years ago
Since 1989 (the first year of the present 33-year cycle), the transnational conspiracy often called the New World Order or “NWO” (internationally), and Zionist Occupation Government or “ZOG” in terms of the domestic politics of various countries, has gradually disempowered the Arabs and other Muslims, while strengthening the hand of the Israeli state and (to use an old term) “World Jewry”.
Indeed, the very public proclamation of the New World Order, in early 1990, in a speech by President Bush (senior), was the prelude to the first war against Iraq, more than a decade before his son, George W. Bush, continued the assault by invading Iraq itself. The 2001 attack on the World Trade Center in Manhattan was the casus belli for war with Iraq, despite Iraq (and Iran) having apparently known nothing of it.
Israel’s main enemies in geopolitical terms, meaning Iraq, Syria, Egypt, were gradually destabilized and removed from the board, from 1989 to 2021, thus leaving Israel pre-eminent in the region.
Smaller and generally anti-Israel states were dealt with in more or less the same way: Libya, Tunisia, Yemen.
That leaves Iran as the only obstacle to Israel’s regional supremacy. Iran’s ancient history and large (and —overall— not-badly-educated) population, its oil, its industrial capacity, all make Iran a target for Israel and “World Jewry”.
It cannot be long before Israel attacks Iran with tacit or overt US support. Suitable excuses will no doubt be produced, anything from Iran’s nuclear programme to cartoons mocking the so-called “holocaust” farrago.
Once Iran is attacked and reduced (in strategic areas) to rubble, there will be a campaign to “overthrow the regime” (as in Iraq, Syria, Ukraine etc), and maybe foment a civil war.
The result, if the Israeli, American, and other Jews are successful, will be (in effect) a Greater Israel. The venal Gulf Arabs have already surrendered to Israel and its wider Jewish diaspora. Diplomatic relations, and airline flights, between Dubai and Israel, Bahrain and Israel.
No surprise to me. The Gulf Arabs worship the “Money Power”, and have little other (culture, identity, even religion) to oppose such worship. Saudi Arabia has made no public statement, but is on the same page.
Israel does not have to immediately plant its flag of conquest over the capitals of the region. Slow, gradual annexation by commerce and the Jewish-American cultural influence will do the job.
Can Iran do anything to stop the above-delineated process? I wonder.
Sabrina Miller is the Jewish Zionist girl student who was at least the figurehead behind the Israel-lobby campaign to have anti-Israel academic, Professor David Miller, sacked from Bristol University, a campaign which was successful (though the Professor is now taking legal action).
Sabrina Miller’s piece about bestiality betrays no understanding about the decent treatment of animals. As a Jewish individual, she quite likely supports (though I have no direct information that she does) the cruel Jewish practice of kosher (kashrut) slaughter of animals. If so, that is, again, hardly surprising.
I should add that she seems to imply, in that piece, that she herself might favour vegetarianism. If so, a positive tick as far as that goes.
There is an intensifying repression of free speech in the UK, particularly when it comes to any mention of Jews that is not laudatory, so I suppose that I must not draw too wide a set of conclusions from the above…
[Update, 15 September 2025: in the 4 years since the blog post was published, much water under the bridge. Dr. David Miller won his employment case against Bristol University, but was not reinstated. He has since become a regular presenter on Press TV (an Iranian channel broadcasting in English), and is currently being privately prosecuted (under the notorious Communications Act 2003, s.127) by the pack of malicious Jews known as “Campaign Against Antisemitism” or “CAA”. The trial is currently set down for dates in December 2025. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Miller_(sociologist).
They used to talk of bringing China up to our standards. It’s a lot easier, in theory, to reduce us to their standards than to raise 1.4B Chinese up to ours.
They’ve used the money from a Billion Chinese sl@ves to bribe our politicians into turning us into yet more sl@ves.
One of those pieces you can't quite believe is over 500 years old and which belies the common misconception that everyone in the late 1500s wrote and spoke in Shakespearean verse.https://t.co/frPmR33k5N
I have been to the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University a couple of times, about 30 years ago. I hope that the “professor” shown in that tweet is not typical now; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutgers_University.
It is not November yet. It is true, though, that poppy-wearing is dying out.
Remembrance Day, or as my maternal grandmother [1900-1988] always called it, in the old way, Armistice Day, was a creation of the First World War and its aftermath, kept going after 1945.
There are now no British people alive who were alive during that first terrible conflict, and none who were much more than children during the second.
There is, of course, another aspect, in that the burgeoning population of blacks, browns, and those of mixed race etc have no real organic connection to England or Britain, so naturally feel no nostalgic emotional need to wear a poppy.
I have now seen part of the first episode, about 20 minutes. I do not usually have the patience to keep watching after a poor start.
Pretty poor; in fact worse (as entertainment) than I had expected. I may see some more at some future time, but I doubt it.
Various critics, including some Jews, have apparently not been hugely impressed by the plot, let alone the details.
I should imagine that the series will sink without trace.
Early evening music
I still think that I have never seen more brilliant staging for The Ride of the Valkyries…
An unusual example of English whimsy
More music
Late tweets seen
Here's a great new show for you. Shocking material from the corporate mainlining of the trans and Satanist agendas. The next covid lockdown excuse just around the corner, and much more. Have a look and thanks for all shares!https://t.co/C4UVSySsPW
I have not listened to the above at time of posting; I may hear some later. I post it in the hope that readers will find something interesting there.
A reminder that genuine medical scientists (as opposed to #BillGates shills) have known all along that vaccines don't provide any lasting protection against coronaviruses. It's a good job they're not dangerous to 99.8% of people….https://t.co/LGXhuE52Bj
Really looking forward to seeing the Great Ones at #COP26 cycle thru #Glasgow & eat artificial meat by candlelight at their banquets. Wait! What? Bug protein, soya, bicycles, power cuts & restricted flights are only for us peasants? Ah, I see! Do you?https://t.co/LoORuTUR6T
Amazing how quickly the covid experts Vallance and Van Tam have switched their attentions to Climate change. In the click of a pay cheque. Just like we all predicted a year ago 🙄
They just don’t care about white children, but they couldn’t take to their knees quick enough for BLM and the scum george Floyd. https://t.co/WY3q7XMNhn
…and both Jewish-lobby puppet Keir Starmer and thick-as-two-short-planks Angela Rayner got down on one knee in fealty to the alien mob. Never forget that.
“Labour”-label needs to disappear forever. So does the “Conservative” Party, but one System monster at a time. Labour first.
Greta Nut (again)
I made the mistake of switching on the car radio this afternoon. The once-interesting (long ago) PM show. 10 minutes was enough. “Covid” nonsense, “COP26” nonsense, and little else. Turns out that Greta Nut has been interviewed (again?) by Andrew Marr.
Incredible. What other poorly-educated, mentally-afflicted teenager (who has actually done nothing anyway) gets respectfully interviewed by someone who is (rightly or wrongly) a major msm current affairs bod? Why should anyone be interested in what Greta Nut thinks about US Government policy? PM presenter Evan Davis then referred to her as “Greta”. She thus joins the select few known universally by first name, such as “Boris”, “Fidel”, “Jesus” etc.
This is a farce, but of course is just part of the propaganda campaign internationally. “Greta” has no more part to play, of her own, than does a ventriloquist’s dummy.
Late music
I recall having a 45 rpm disc of that in 1971. The TV series had been on not long before.
Ian Robert Millard 